TNET: Alabama defensive player says Clemson offense is nothing special

According to members of Alabama's defense, Clemson's offense wasn't hard to defend during Monday's National Championship Game, and quarterback Trevor Lawrence's success was a byproduct of having great receivers. Photo by Matthew Emmons / USATODAYFull Story »

Ask Isaiah Buggs! One of my lasting memories of this game will be Travis Etienne’s long run on the last drive ( just under 9 minutes left in the game). Travis went around the left side past a half-hearted attempt by Buggs and the screen shot of #9 making yards and #49 jogging behind is priceless. Not sure if Buggs was feeling fatigue or simply disheartened. Either way, he chased like he knew it was futile!

I saw this and had to post. Pissed me off. I thought the same thing (next year, 75 points and we should have scored that last touchdown). This just shows the difference between the kind of players Dabo recruits and the kind that Saban recruits and the development that happens at Clemson. Our players know how to win and how to lose with grace. This guy is clueless.

I find it hard to believe, but I suppose he thinks all of Alabama's wins were against teams who played a flawless game. I suspect Clemson's offense and defense had something to do with those mental lapses by the Alabama players. Looking only at star rankings, Alabama definitely had the edge. Looking at the intangibles, Clemson was and is the clear leader.

Trevor threw for what ~350 yds?

I thought Bama's game plan was to go after him hard and rattle him. I mean, Williams and his buddies on defense set their own goals, we didn't set expectations for them. They failed and now he's talking chit about our offense who threw up 44 points on them?

"SEC DEFENSE, SEC SPEED, SEC LINEMEN...

Btw, Jason Written on ESPN's Monday Night Film Room said, 'Dabo says his receivers are taught to go the first six yards like you want to win. After that you turn and it' your responsibility to find the ball and catch it.'

If you consider that, it isn't as if our receivers weren't doing anything in the game they hadn't practiced all year. Evidently Williams isn't around when receivers are practicing.

Jason Written not Hason Witten.Message was edited by: ClemsonTiger1988®

What Mr.Williams,( and I use that term lightly)fails to realize is that his comments are a "direct" indictment of just how poor the Bama Defensive Coaching Staff was. After all, the plays and schemes they employed against our offense were put in place by the Defensive Coaches, who failed miserably in developing a plan to get to Trevor.It also tells me that their offense was nothing special either.But I sure do love their "Special Teams "Coach.

Re: Only Bama can find ways to give bulletin board material while losing by 28

One of the great images from the game was Clemson in victory formation in the red zone...AGAINST ALABAMA! Much better than another TD! I wish I could find a good photo, or knew how to do a screen shot of it. It would be my new FB photo!

4 of his 6 national championships came in the BCS era.

The BCS so poorly matched two teams to play in the 'Mythical National Championship Game,' that the game was coined as the mythical national championship. Media voters would undeservedly rank many of the best teams down in the 20s while they ranked their favorite team #1 to foul the polls. Check the Bama/ND championship game. ESPN was one of the culprits in this scheme. That's when the SEC became the 'dominate,' conference along with the newly formed SEC Network.

Thanks ESPN, if not for you we'd have no playoff and would never have fairly crowned the true national champions.

ZERO sacks, ZERO fumbles forced, ZERO interceptions

and yet it Bama's "mental errors" that lost the game. Well, ok, let's add that "thinking" so much of yourselves after that BUTT WHOOPIN' is another mental error. Look forward to seeing more of those from you guys.

Wow - to be a part of such a big time program Williams and McKinney make themselves sound awful small!! Guess whatever helps them sleep at night. Just think - if Clemson were special on offense how many points could the Tigers have scored - lol!! Also - how many points in the 4th quarter if we hadn’t basically quit trying to score? Think about that Mr Williams & Mr McKinney!!!

Not a wise idea to go through the "denial" stage of grief in

public media interviews. Then again - if you have watched any interviews of Quinnen Williams its quite obvious he's not the sharpest tool in the shed. Some friendly advice for Mr. Williams and his teammates: Sometimes it is better to keep your mouth shut and thought to be an imbecile than running your mouth and removing all doubt...

You know, when I am quarterback for my son against some of the neighborhood kids, I light it up 7 td's 80% completion, and don't even get me started with my running. I mean real Heisman numbers................MAYBE it is the competition that Tua is playing against.

They always said that the other team went into a hitting slump every time Greg Maddox Pitched!

Nothing Special Beat down by 28; Bama D Must Be No Good

Tigers scored more points than OU and their DLINE never put pressure in TL.Tigers played good football. Tide played poor football for 4 quarters. T j ey must po f too much of their own bathwater or believed what the pundits wrote.

Thank you Dabo for teaching our players class and accountability! We do it the right way and it is clear that karma is on our side! Watching these kids say classless things just demonstrates to the hilt the difference between the CULTURE of the two schools! Own up to your mistakes and always be HUMBLE!

Lookin forward to next year when we are gonna Roll Tide and then smoke them again!

I think think the tigers scored more on your "vaunted Sec defense than Oklahoma or georgia. Mr.Williams, maybe if your lard #$$ hadn't been stuffed your corners would've had a chance. Scoreboard/2 out of 3 in natty' s against bama! Oh and one more thing, hooked on phonics is a free download!! You should give it a try!!

I do believe that if I had just had my butt handed to me, I would keep my mouth shut. It makes him look small. Even during Spurrier’s time there were a couple of years when I gave credit to Carolina as difficult as that was. I’m gladwe kicked those prima donnas to the curb.

After listening to Quinnen Williams speak, I see now why Alabama selected Xavier McKinney to be the defensive representative on the podium with Saban and Tua after the game. Best to keep microphones away from this guy.

So, all of the SEC teams you beat must be far less than less than special. This means that your SOS was nothing special and you should have been have been playing UCF in the Charmin Bowel, you would probably would have lost by only 14 points. Hubris knows no bounds.

First, Quinnen didn't get close enough to Trevor Lawrence during the game to actually see how good Trevor is.

Second, when Saban went for it on fourth down in the secomd quarter from his own 20 yard line,he new his defense wasn't going to be able to stop Trevor & the tiger offense. Saban new how good Trevor & the Clemson offense was/is.

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old news, re-hash, and why anyways is a bama player and his statements plastered on our great website? Just don't get it. I'd rather have real inside stories on our players, coaches, the waterboy, the trainer, and so forth. There's plenty of that to go around, why this waste of time and space? We're the champs, and to the victors go the spoils. OK, I'm done.

And boys here is your absolute proof of the landslide that Alabama may take, because for the first time in my life the Alabama side lines take the voice of the COOTs rather than the COOTs taking the voice of Alabama. Overlay Quinnen with Jake once the delusion sets in it is all down hill for these guys.

Trying to give Williams the benefit of the doubt, I still questioned was his statement pure ignorance or arrogance. My conclusion was a bit of both. Maybe he does not watch much football…but the greatest Quarterbacks in college and the NFL are great because they have great receivers. Quarterbacks and receivers are one, and either can become great without the other. However, it is always the quarterback that receives most of accolades…sorry Mr. Williams, but that is just factual information in the sport you play. Your statement that you were going to get pressure on Lawrence early did not pan out, and while some of his passes where not “Spot On” …many were…allowing him to set the CFP record…and I might add…as a freshman. Alabama did not lose due to mental errors…they lost because they met a team unlike any team they have played all year and were owned. But hey….you are headed to the NFL were ignorance and arrogance are the norm… still…I wish you the best.

Very well put! Williams and Tua sound like cry babies. 'Bama, you want to win against Clemson? Man up and shut up! And don't make silly sad bass excuses. Tigers win!! Thhhhhhhhhhhhe Tigers WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trying to give Williams the benefit of the doubt, I still questioned was his statement pure ignorance or arrogance. My conclusion was a bit of both. Maybe he does not watch much football…but the greatest Quarterbacks in college and the NFL are great because they have great receivers. Quarterbacks and receivers are one, and either can become great without the other. However, it is always the quarterback that receives most of accolades…sorry Mr. Williams, but that is just factual information in the sport you play. Your statement that you were going to get pressure on Lawrence early did not pan out, and while some of his passes were not “Spot On” …many were…allowing him to set the CFP record…and I might add…as a freshman. Alabama did not lose due to mental errors…they lost because they met a team unlike any team they have played all year and were owned. But hey….you are headed to the NFL were ignorance and arrogance are the norm… still…I wish you the best.

Clemson beat the stuffing out of Alabama. Georgia lost to Texas in the Sugar Bowl and it was not as close as the final score indicated. Mississippi State lost to Iowa. Say that over again in your mind. Iowa, they lost to Iowa. The Hawkeyes are horrible. South Carolina didn't get beat by a weak Virginia, they got crushed, 28-0. Missouri lost to Oklahoma State. Vandy lost to Baylor. Yes, Baylor.

LSU beat UCF, but UCF was missing their best player and a blind man could have seen this coming. It was a set up. Auburn got the easiest set up of all, Purdue. The Boilermakers were 6-6 and lost to a directional Michigan school. Set up. The Aggies also got a weak team in NC State.

I will only give Florida credit for beating anyone decent and Michigan was without several starters who chose to sit out the bowl game.

SEC!!!! SEC!!!!! SEC!!!!!!

What a bunch of overrated girlie boys.

Oh, and not one person mentioned, that I am aware of, the targeting on Trevor on one of his running plays. It was a clear cheap shot and the guy should have been ejected and he wasn't. Oh well, I'm glad to beat their best.

It was clear that they were nothing special. That's what frustrated me so much. What they were is motivated and prepared and Bama was not. All Lawrence did was throw high so the taller recievers could outjump the shorter DB's. It was a successful plan even though he threw a lot of bad balls even with no pressure on him and ended up with a worse completion percentage than Tua. But the other thing that helped him was the totally incompetant play of the DB's and that there was never an adjustment made the entire game. I don't know if they all had brain farts, or the stupid inexperienced DC, Lupoi planned it that way, but on most of Lawrence's completions that weren't jump balls the DB's were 5 yards away from the recievers. That's ridiculous. There's no excuse for it. Of course what made all of that possible is Clemson's O'line played way over their heads, or Bama's D'line never got off the bus. Whichever, Clemson was a well prepared team and Bama looked like they had watched the wrong film and prepared for Louisville.That's what happens when you come to a game with an entitled attitude.Kudo's to Clemson.

I think Clemson's coaching staff realize after film study of Bama's defense that nothing special was required. They evaluated Bama's D-Line and back 7 and realized that we could play them the same way we played the rest of the ACC schedule and soundly beat them on talent and a little execution. Your Dline wasn't as strong and pass rush wasn't as good Boston College, ND or Syracuse. Your DBs were on par with the worst we played all year (Louisville, Wake Forrest, and FSU). The DBs have looked undisciplined & clueless most of the season (although I think Surtain will be a great CB). We put in a few wrinkles on offense to make it seem like we had done something different on offense. But really it was a lot of the same plays. Against ND we had to run Trevor Lawrence (1st qtr) to open up our offense, with Bama we didn't have to do any of that, matter of fact he ran a few times for sport and to run down the clock in the fourth qtr. Because honestly we could have score 2 more times (1 by the backup offense) in the 4th qtr if we wanted to. So he is right Clemson's offense didn't have to do anything special to issue the beat down they gave Bama.

As far as our defense, the coaches knew all they had to do was keep Tua in the pocket, while making him feel pressured and at the same time taking away the slant routes and bingo! If you let him scramble too much he will eek out a long one but if you keep in the pocket and make him panick thinking about the pressure he is going to want to hit the quick slant pass bc that's been his bread and butter all season, so you take that away and you got him. So as a Bama fan the fact that not a whole lot of special plays were required to stump y'all should be alarming.

A lot has been said about receivers helping Trevor with poorly thrown balls salvaged by the leaping ( phenominal !) catches. He utilized the talent available to him to put the ball where no one but his receiver could catch the ball. Hence, no ints. !

Alabama players, notably, QB and DL are delusional with their post game comments. This is a joke. If I were a sports caster interviewing (which I'm not) I would have responded, "really, and why did Bama lose so bad..." "Looked like to the rest of the world that Clemson cleaned your clock! Awake-up and admit that they played an outstanding game and convincingly beat you."

Pretty soon QW and TT will be spinning how great Bama's win was. LOL

Very poor sportsmanship, on Bama's part, which reflects on what and how all others view Bama... losers...poor losers at that.

I am so proud of Dabo, the coaches, players and staff. Great season. And the best games of the season against ND and Bama!

According to members of Alabama's defense, Clemson's offense wasn't hard to defend during Monday's National Championship Game, and quarterback Trevor Lawrence's success was a byproduct of having great receivers. Photo by Matthew Emmons / USATODAYFull Story »

Let me put it in simple language that even a Bam player can understand--- the world knows who Trevor L. Is, the pro scouts already know who T.L. is. All though you will play in the NFL you will be on Sports Illustrated and never demand the respect that Trevor gets. On a personal note, learn how to be humble and give credit where credit is due---- He torched your ###!!!!

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Poor losers always make excuses. Opinions are like ***holes...everybody has one. Denial is not a river that runs through Egypt. Zero sacks. Zero interceptions. Bama defense was porous and weak. Bama offense was stymied by a very aggressive Tiger defense. Williams' ignorant comments will be bulletin board material if we play them next year. Saban should sit his players down and tell them to accept a loss like men, not whine like a poor sport. Maybe the culture of Alabama creates comments like Williams or maybe Williams is on his own. I don't know and I don't care because in the end Clemson is the NATIONAL CHAMPIONS FOR 2018!!

Yes...OU did expose a glaring weakness in Bama's defense which was lack of depth. In the natty we spread the field and wore them down making it increasingly difficult for their D. TL will continue to improve which means the sky is the limit. Alabama needs to correct their issues (like big mouthed players) otherwise even in their own conference they may face the end of their reign...

This guy is unbelievable if he truly believes this. Using his rationale, if they lost by 28 on 50/50 balls we were throwing up how bad could it have been if TL was playing well?

Quotes like this - and Tua’s which were similar - is what you get from kids who havent experienced what it means to get beat in a competitive situation. They don’t know how to respond to and get better from a loss. Hopefully they continue to prep in the same way- it’ll be fun to see other teams beat them with 50/50 balls.

How does a team make enough "mental errors" to allow 44 points? Second, how does a Nick Saban coached team make repeated mental errors of that caliber if you accept that Saban is one of the great defensive coaches of our time. And, finally, how is it that the "great Bama defensive front four" can't get as much pressure on Trevor as say Pitt or BC. Oh by the way, remind me of how many sacks Bama got on us. Nothing special, huh? Look at the scoreboard!!

Well, I don't recall Williams doing much to prevent anything. Really, he's just like Saban and the rest of that mechanical-cant-think-for-themselves team, they can't admit they were bested for any other reason than their shortcomings. Saban is the master of the backhanded compliment...and Williams has an ego problem, but that's cool. He and those other Bama players that get drafted by will soon discover they aren't the Kings of the Homecoming dance anymore, and next time be they face members of Clemson's D-line, maybe their attitudes will be more respectful. Then again, you can't fix stupid and entitled.

Did your fat ### even play in this game? Don't remember seeing or hearing anything about you at all.Also you knew what was coming and still couldn't stop it? Sounds like you are saying we are much better than any of those teams. Scoreboard beotch! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

My thoughts exactly.If I were his DL coach I'd be kicking his a$$ for critiquing the downfield play instead of doing his job.What we have here, though, is a kid that got beat so bad he doesn't even know how it got done to him. Most of those mistakes and non-executions were the result of something being done TO them, and they're to dumb/arrogant to realize it.

Many of the Bama coaches, players and fans just can't bring themselves to be gracious in defeat. I guess it is hard to handle when you have been on top for so long. I know the Tigers would have handled losing with class. You lost so just own it. Being a poor loser is a really bad look.

Are you trying to copy Trump’s style of information management? If you lie about something often enough you figure some people will start to believe you until you have damaged the accomplishments of the other team enough to where some idiots might make it news and think maybe he isn’t lying??!!?? Go cry to your Mama. She’ll probably tell you to put your big boy pants on and shut up!

First of all, he is right...tiger offense is quite ordinary in todays times, maybe some above average execution by some extraordinary young men but I think if Oklahoma has a matching defense they whip Alabama as well. Next point, this dude is a bully, he took a cheap shot on the Sooner QB and the Sooner lineman took exception. He got it handed to him Monday night by our average (lol) line which by the way is made up of equally exceptional young men. Tiger nation must stay where we have been with our attitudes, please don't ever let us get to the point of being "those fans"...its fun now, it was fun in the 80s....lets go get a few more on the run to 10 natties!

Don't put articles like this so the public can read them. I am ashamed that any human being would be ignorant enough to make the statements this idiot made. "We know what was coming we weren't surprised." If you knew what was coming and couldn't stop it then logic would say that we were better than you. Yes, the Clemson receivers are great but they are useless without someone that can throw the ball to them. Accept that you got your head handed to you and take it like a man. Don't make quotes like a 7 year old child. This article is a disgrace to journalism.

We had it 1st and goal inside the 5 with 30 seconds to play. We do the classy thing and run out the clock. His comments, and others like it, make me wish we had punched it in to go up by 35.Just how big of point margin do they need to recognize they got spanked by an efficient, high-octane offense.

When are these DA players going to learn to stop showing

their stupidity? Why do you think you had mental errors on defense? (Hint: BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE IQ OF AN ICE CUBE!)

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According to members of Alabama's defense, Clemson's offense wasn't hard to defend during Monday's National Championship Game, and quarterback Trevor Lawrence's success was a byproduct of having great receivers. Photo by Matthew Emmons / USATODAYFull Story »

I just find that ignorant comment, comical. ????????????????????????????????

Defensive Alabama... could have copycatted ND

It's amazing how their excuse is mental errors. Saban said the Tigers copy cat'd Oklahoma and Georgia to exploit Bama. So if that's the case why didn't Bama copy cat ND that pressured Lawrence or SC that hung 500 on us?

It's clear the Bama DL held little back trying to get at Lawrence... they just couldn't get by an OL that somehow undeserving ND managed to circumvent. The mental error was thinking they were as good as ND!

I think he may be upset that the O-line handled the Bama front pretty well, and Lawrence had just enough time to complete clutch passes, including plenty of 3rd downers. I'm guessing he didn't like Lawrence and the O-line running it down their throat on the final drive either. Bama didn't seem to have an answer for Etienne either, and are probably lucky he didn't get more carries. Feaster was going beast mode too...Also I dont really remember a single 50/50 ball, as Lawrence was placing the ball in tight spots where pretty much the only one who could make an actual play on the ball were his receivers. The chemistry between Lawrence and the receivers was special. Honestly the more I think about it, the more I feel like this dude is delusional and doesn't really deserve a response.

Quinnen Williams must have seriously bumped his head during the championship game. He had a brilliant year for us, and always spoke graciously when referring to previous opponents --- so I hope Clemson fans can forgive his temporary lapse of rationality. I assure you, his opinion does not represent the consensus among Tide faithful.

That performance y'all put-on Monday night was nothing short of an epic beatdown. And as painful as it was for me to watch, it's a whole lot easier to take when that beatdown is administered by a program --- and fan base --- for whom I have nothing but respect.

Here's hoping Dabo had it right when he told Saban, "See you next year." On second thought, would y'all mind sitting-out next year's championship game?

By the comments, some of you guys are taking this too serious. I would argue that it is extremely normal for children to speak with a lack of respect for there parents. Who's your daddy Bama? Clemson is, that's who. Monday night daddy took you to the woodshed, some rebellious acting out is expected.